Morsels from Numbers and Nature is a fun and relaxed way for mathbio researchers at any stage in their career to discuss their ongoing research and current thinking. This community-focused sharing series hosts 5-10 minute informal, unpolished talks as an invitation for discussion and feedback. Times will be rotating to accommodate for different time zones.
Clear your calendars for May 16th at 2 pm Eastern for a fun discussion!
Sign up for your preferred spot and please include your email address when you sign up. Feel free to share this with your departments, colleagues, students, and anyone else who may want to join in to listen or sign up to present their work in a fun and informal environment. Or, if you know someone you think would give a great Morsel, nominate them by emailing us! We will follow up to see if they are interested.
Featured Talks
Juan Vargas Soto
Dr. Juan Vargas Soto, a researcher at the University of Tennessee, discusses a newly developed analytical framework for analyzing how animal movement, and in particular the correlation in space use across individuals, can affect the spatio-temporal risk of disease transmission. Correlation could be a critical factor for transmission of fast-paced parasites, but incorporating it in predictive models also represents a significant, yet exciting, future mathematical challenge.
Dr. William Godsoe is a former NIMBioS postdoctoral researcher and now Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University in New Zealand. His talk discusses his paper that uses “whimsical” examples comparing ideas of diversity in ecology to the narrative choices in the 2023 Barbie movie. The goal of his talk is to help mathematicians better convey abstract ideas about diversity.
Dr. Kristen Rappazzo is a researcher at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In her talk, she discusses investigating potential for bias in health studies while using weighted quantile sums (WQS) and quantile g-computation (QGC) in multiple situations using simulated data, illustrating potential challenges in analysis with directed acyclic graphs (DAG).
Our mission is to foster the growth of transdisciplinary approaches within mathematics and biology
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Nina Fefferman, Director
NIMBioS
From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any options, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
